Top 100 companies with market capitalization, average annual operating profit 46% ↑

Top 100 companies with market capitalization, average annual operating profit 46% ↑

CEO score collection analysis ... SK Hynix surges 319%

The top 100 companies with the highest market cap in Korea reported an increase of 46% in operating profit last year.

Samsung Electronics, which is the largest market cap, and SK Hynix, the second largest market cap, posted robust earnings in the IT and electronics sectors. The automobile and parts industry, which suffered from the Sad shock, recorded the biggest drop in sales.

According to CEO Score (CEO, Park Joo-keun) on December 13, among the Top 100 companies listed on the closing price on September 9, 81 companies that announced tentative results last year, Operating profit of 155.56 trillion won and net profit of 121.686 trillion won respectively.

Sales grew 11.7% YoY, but operating profit and net profit increased 45.8% and 48.5%, respectively.

By business, Samsung Electronics' operating profit was overwhelmingly 53.64 trillion won, followed by SK Hynix with 13.71 trillion won, up 318.7 percent from the previous year. The combined operating profits of both companies accounted for 43.4% of the total companies.

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Samsung Heavy Industries (522.2 billion won) and Tissue Jean (15.4 billion won) recorded the operating deficit last year.

Mirae Asset Daewoo, the biggest increase in operating profit, increased nearly 200 times from 3.2 billion won in the previous year to 622.8 billion won last year.

By industry, pharmaceutical and biotech operating profits grew the most at 154.3%, while securities, IT and electric electronics recorded 124.1% and 112.4%, respectively.

On the other hand, operating profit decreased for automobile and parts (-29.4%), public enterprises (-14.2%), household goods (-11.7%), transportation (-6.6%) and food and beverage (-4.6%).